# Daniel Larkin

> I build systems for places where failure isn’t recoverable. Systems architect and technical founder. Applied AI, distributed systems, and edge infrastructure down to the firmware it runs against. Usually a few years before it was comfortable.

Vertical farms, off-grid houses and technical divers look like unrelated industries. They are the same engineering problem. Each is a closed loop running under constraint, where a model is the only thing standing between the system and a failure you cannot undo. A hydroponic bay drifts and a crop is gone in days. A house misjudges its power budget in winter and the people inside are cold. A decompression schedule is wrong by a few minutes and a diver is hurt on the way up.

Available globally. Based UTC+8, between Indonesia and New Zealand, with summers in the UK, originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, and works to whatever timezone or site an engagement needs. Reachable at daniel@larkin.nz.

## Full content

- [Everything on one page, as markdown](https://daniel.larkin.nz/llms-full.txt): the complete site text, generated from source.
- [The site itself](https://daniel.larkin.nz/): server-rendered HTML; all content is in the initial response.

## Work

- [Bloom (2016–2017)](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#bloom): Teaching a camera to notice a plant is sick before a grower can.
- [OneIsland (2018–2022)](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#oneisland): A browser that outputs a house.
- [DiveLogic (Present)](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#divelogic): Right to the minute, or not right at all.

## Capabilities

- Applied AI & ML systems
- Distributed systems & consistency
- Edge architecture & Cloudflare Workers
- Rust & WebAssembly
- Embedded firmware & real-time control
- Sensing & instrumentation
- Design-to-manufacture pipelines
- Systems where safety is a requirement, not a feature

## Engagements

- [Architecture & advisory](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#practice): A hard system, and a decision you cannot unmake. 2–6 weeks.
- [Build it with you](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#practice): Hands on the part nobody wants to own. 3–6 months.
- [Technical due diligence](https://daniel.larkin.nz/#practice): Whether the claim survives contact. 1–2 weeks.

## Elsewhere

- [GitHub](https://github.com/danzlarkin)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@danzlarkin)